Which actually is part of my point. You get paid more for the second half of a round shares even though they have exactly the same chance of finding the block. So on law of averages if you only mine the second half of the rounds you will get paid more.

How do you know it when the second half of the round starts you ask? Well you just join rounds that have gone longer than the average length for slush's pool ... so at present difficulty joining rounds at 50 mins in is going to earn more than mining the whole block, no?

It's only minor bug on stats page. Number goes to zero when round is longer than one hour, but there are constantly over 1000 active workers now.


No, there is just some delay before block is shown in blockexplorer. Now you can see all the blocks in BE too.

Indulge me. How is it that "most" of the rounds will last shorter than the mean?

Aren't half the rounds shorter than the mean and half the rounds longer than the mean? Isn't that what the mean is in a normal distribution?

If you want to see the exact statistics you can try putting any number into the mining calculator. http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php. It will show you that the average time to solve blocks is higher than it takes to solve the quickest 50% of the blocks. The problem is that you don't know in advance which blocks will end up within those 50%.

The distribution isn't normal, there is a graph at the pool which shows it: http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stats/graphs/

As you can se, it's kind of open ended. Your suggestion for fooling the pool requires there to be an upper limit to how low it can take to solve a block, and a normal distribution within this range. That's not how it works. In theory there can be a block that will never be solved.

Hey Slush,

Have you tried my UI improvements greasemonkey script? (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98553)

Would you be willing to link to it from mining.bitcoin.cz and/or the top post of this thread? Obviously you would want to say that it is a 3rd-party script which could be changed by me to something evil at any time (not that I would do that).

Another possibility is you could host an approved version of the script, or link to an approved version in the version history on userscripts.org.

I assume that some people on this thread have reviewed the code and can vouch that it is not evil (can anyone back me up on this?).

My script also puts your bitcoin donation address (and mine) at the bottom of the workers page.

He should really replace his filter and use the skimmer daily.

Yeah it's a bug in my fat fingers it seems I pasted wrong address sorry for the bother

I see a bug or problem using ur script on google chrome.
It doesn't save the check boxes. save given by slush has no use.
Every time i closes google chrome completely & open chrome, every thing is back to NO SCRIPT page, then have to change Time offset, & check the check boxes needed again.
Please make it save the changes. I used google chrome 10.0.648.134 version.

Hi, I'm sorry if this question is irrelevant or has already been answered (I'm fairly new to Bitcoin and may not understand fully). Anyway, I'm just wondering what happens to the transaction fees earned by the pool. Are these distributed to the workers? Thanks